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The generic term ‘oil’ designates two very different kinds of compounds that are liquid at ambient temperature and normal atmospheric pressure. Crude oils (using the proper qualifying adjective and a plural whose importance will be
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“To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“The first law of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“So simply to look on anything, such as a mountain, with the love that penetrates to its essence, is to widen the domain of being in the vastness of non-being. Man has no other reason for his existence.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“When the aromatic savour of the pine goes searching into the deepest recesses of my lungs, I know it is life that is entering. I draw life in through the delicate hairs of my nostrils.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown allies will come and seek you.”
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Gijs’s 2025 Year in Books
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